mr. steele was seated in that chair closest to me.n they told the jury, all rise, i saw that was my opportunity and i was going to have the element of surprise. >> i heard a bit of a shuffle from my right-hand side. >> i felt a punch, what i thought was a punch to the chest. >> i stabbed him in the chest. and the first thing out of his mouth was, "why?" that's the first thing out of anybody's mouth whenever they're faced with their consequences. why? why did you do this? or why did you do that? well, if you stop back and think about the actions you took to bring you to this point, you wouldn't have to ask why. >> i was walking back to the table and they said, are you okay, a.j.? i said, yeah, i'm all right. i was probably still carrying on myself. they said, did he get you? i'm like, yeah, he punched me in the chest. they said, no, with a shank. i looked and there was a hole in my shirt and i was bleeding. it was about seven inches long. it was a toilet brush that he had broken off and sharpened up by scraping it on -- against the cin

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mr. steele, michael, i'm going to be very gentle tonight because -- >> no, no. >> the republicans had a badhange the story. but let me show you the montage of willard's flips on the economy. let me just show you this. >> when he took office, the economy was in recession and he made it worse. and he made it last longer. >> he didn't create the recession, but he made it worse and longer. >> he did not cause this recession but he made it worse. >> how can you continue to say that things are worse when they really aren't worse. >> i didn't say things are worse. >> of course it's getting better. the economy always gets better after a recession. >> isn't that a hard argument to make? is that a stark enough contrast? >> have you got a better one, laura? it just happens to be the truth. >> and i know the president didn't cause this downturn to. this recession. but he didn't make it better either. he made it worse. >> michael -- >> yeah. >> it seems that mr. romney was all over the place today. the numbers speak for themselves. more manufacturing jobs, it's going better. have a long way to go. by no

mr. steele? >> well, i mean, i think, a, you're right. the trend line for at least the first month of this quarter says that the economy is making a move in a direction that's positive for the president. the second point, however, and i think it's something that the governor touched on, that's true for both parties. these numbers are going to move all over the map with respect to unemployment. the cbo came out last week and said that their early projections are showing that unemployment going into next year is going to be a lot higher than it is today. when does that trend line if it happens, begin? does it happen in the summer? after the election? so i think we've got to put a little baste bullet next to all of these numbers right now, particularly in the first quarter of the year as things begin to settle out based on what the congress, house and senate does and with the president's budget when it gets up to the hill next week. how we deal with, for example, the unemployment tax, whether that's going to be extended or if it's going to -

mr. steele, mr.d, thank you for joining us. >> yes. >> hello, rachel. >> you know it's amazing in space no one can hear you scream. when i go to chuck todd silence -- >> i heard you go to mr. steele. >> blank stare time. >> chuck, we hear from you that there is a panic in the republican -- is that true? >> it is and in fact my own reporting today indicates there has been this finger pointing if you will, going on among sort of folks outside of boston, meaning outside of romney supporters that are not part of the boston leadership team that surrounds him. mitt romney who basically looks at the campaign and strategy and saying this is a mistake, don't just sit here and destroy your opponents, you have to win over kr conservatives, you have to show leadership skills and you have to show an ability to organize republicans in both caucus states and primaries, so there is a lot of second guessing that even if romney gets out of this, there are donors that would like to see some change in strategy. some pro

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mr. scalise is saying. the steel is not being manufactured in little rock, arkansas. there is no steel being manufactured there. they are taking steel that's already been manufactured in a foreign country, heating it up, bending it and welding the seams. that's what's going on in little rock arkansas. there are 2 to 300 jobs. that was opened in 2009 when the company successful in getting the contract got the contract. they wanted to source the plant in the united states to take the proekt product and bend the pipe. that's how long that company -- it's run by a fine gentleman from pittsburgh whose parents live in my district. i know a little bit about what's going on down there. look, you can say everything you want to say. for me it's simple. i know you're not going to vote for this amendment. what bothers me about this whole debate is how somebody is telling the american people things that just aren't true. i'm not -- we get our information from the people we ask to get our information from. it took me a long time to get a straight answer from the permit -- actually

then lastly, we tell them 75% of the steel and this project is coming from north america. that's far from true too. i think what mr. markey's done here, the end result i think is bad thing and why i won't support his amendment, is to try to point out that we need this this entire debate is a little bit of truth in advertising. you know, it's enough to be for this pipeline if it can be built in an environmentally sound way and i favor building it once we cross those ts and dot those is. i'm not for any 30 day fast track or the attempt of what my friend mr. terry is trying to do

mr. doyle, my friend from pennsylvania, my neighbor also known as chairman of the steel caucus, i'm as committed as you are to making sure we do all we do to emphasize american manufacturing. i also want to review this issue with you, and i pledge to review this. as you also point out, however, a private company has a right to purchase things wherever it is. if there's any federal dollars in this, i know i support the issue in the past, buy american when it is american dollars. for military equipment or other things. we stand shoulder to shoulder with that. i want to continue to work with you and get to the bottom as well. i yield back to mr. terry. >> will the gentleman yield. >> yeah. >> recognize the gentleman from pittsburgh, mr. doyle. >> i agree with everything my friend from louisiana said. we know the pipe is sitting on the property and they want to use it in the pipeline. i understand that. they have every right to. it's a private company. they can buy it wherever they want. that pipe comes from india. we specifically asked the permit applicant if there was any of the steel source from

mr. carter. how did the nlrb only have two members at that time of that steel decision? >> at the time of the new process still eel decision, the senate was continuing in pro forma sessions and it was impossible to make any recess a appointments. >> to your knowledge, did the executive branch issue some sort of a statement on that challenging the senate's ability to have pro forma sessions at that time? >> i'm not aware of that, sir. >> ambassador gray, you -- you're pretty significant to today's hearings because when you had the questions before you, you reached a different conclusion. would you tell us a little bit about how you, as, i think, mr. rifken and mr. carter both did, how you could think again and agree with the decision? is there any way you could have agreed with the decision made by counsel on behalf of the president that allowed these extraordinary events to occur, particularly as to the two or three nlrb people, two of whom had not even been given time to be considered by the senate? >> well, the trump card is held, at least in a theoretical sense, by th

it was a little difficult to get the new steel beams through the windows designed by mr.e been easier and less expensive to demolish the whole building, but the white house is so great a symbol to americans that the exterior walls were retained. and then piece by piece the interior of the president's house was put back together. the exterior views were exactly those which americans had seen throughout this century. except for the balconyy on the south portico which president truman added. >> reporter: when she glided down that hallway in 1962, 32-year-old jacqueline kennedy had been first lady for only a year. >> mrs. john f. kennedy, third youngest of the 29 wives to live in the white house. >> reporter: but she had already started a massive restoration that would change the way the world looked at the white house. 50 years, nine first ladies, and many renovations later, white house curator bill al mond is still taking a lot of his cues from jackie. so how much does jacqueline kennedy's restoration of the white house still resonate here today? >> it set the whole tone fo

mr. putin. >> here every day looks like arm feden. this is a -- arm geten. this is a town which never stops burning. churning out iron and steel. the snow here is black with pollution, but people's lives depend on the factory and instability which they fear most. the new evgeni kozlov has worked at the plants for 50 years and set up a workers committee to back vladimir putin for president. the protests in moscow don't reflect the mood of russia, evgeni says. working people don't want revolution. we want stability. that's why we support putin. at the tank factory up the road they pledged their loyalty to mr. putin live on tv. >> coming to moscow with his meat to take on the anti-government protesters. evgeni and the metal workers aren't marching on moscow but today they are taking the train to the capital. there they join how the st.s of other workers across the euros at a pro putin rally. there are no white ribbons, the trademark of mr. putin's oppositions. they wear the worker's glove. >> this is protesting against those protesting against the government. showing away from the capital, russia's working capital still has faith

steel that weighs a great deal of weight. they have to push that door and had it holds in order to get out. as mrs.gher said, if they were to come to us. it is a safe way -- the safe way for people to get out is to put a gateway between the two properties. they could go out to our garage. that would be an easy way. going out through this door is impossible. very few of the women he was ever lived there tell me they are even able to open the door. if they were really here for safety, they would be here with an application for a building permit to change this and concrete this over. right now, it is a fire trap. this is cheaper than going through. they have had two years. thank you. commissioner antonini: are there additional speakers in support of the dr? if not, project sponsor? >> i am the engineer of records. good evening. i would love to do what you suggested and made that door more safe to get out. i did reach out to everyone with letters and no one responded. we went ahead and look at the back stairs and it was obvious to me, looking not -- looking at -- it was obvious to me we could push out

mr. paul who are the major funders of his organization? >> the organization is pretty unique in washington. we are funded through a collective bargaining arrangement between the steel workers union and some of its participating employers. i'll give you a couple of names. united states steel, which has been around for more than 100 years and should be a familiar name. arselar matau, which is a large steel company in the united states that has works in places like cleveland and western indiana but all over the country are just two of them. and we're not a dues-seeking organization. we actually go out and do a lot of town hall meetings with small and mid-size manufacturers at no cost to them. we've done 35 of these town hall meetings around the country, so we've been able to meet literally hundreds and thousands of workers and small and mid-size manufacturers to hear their points of view about what needs to be done to strengthen our economy. >> next call from trenton in texas. a republican. welcome. >> caller: gentlemen, good morning. i appreciate your made in the usa approach, something we've needed a long time. my question and statement, i guess, in 1999, the cia di

mr. putin. we have gone to the mountains to find out what people there think of vladimir putin. >> every day looks like armageddon. this is a town that never stops burning, turning out iron and steelround the clock. the snow here is black with pollution. but people's lives depend on the factory's. it is the instability they fear most. he has or that the local metallurgical plants for 50 years. -- he has worked at the local metallurgical plants for 50 years. he supports the president. he says working people do not want revolution. we want stability. and that is why we support putin. at the factory up the road, they pledged their loyalty to mr. putin live on television. this worker offered to come to moscow with his mate to cape -- to take on the anti- government protestors. the metal workers here are not marching on moscow. today, they are taken the original train to the -- taking the regional train to the capital. there are no white ribbons, the trademark of mr. putin's critics. the symbol here is the workers glove. he pays our pension, nikolai says. he gives us bread and cheese. that is all we need. as for the west, could in is russia's future, another says. >> middle class and y

one other comment i would make is that the american iron and steel institute that represents many of the companies that mr. doyle is concerned about is supporting our legislation. we have the letter that they support this legislation and they support building the pipeline. and i might also say that five of the major labor unions in america -- i yield myself an additional 0 seconds. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. whitfield: five of the major labor unions in america support this legislation because they recognize the additional jobs that will be available to them in the construction of the pipeline. so for that reason reluctantly oppose mr. doyle's amendment and i would reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from kentucky reserves. the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. mr. doyle: thank you, mr. speaker. at this time i'd like to yield one minute to the gentlelady from ohio, ms. sutton. the chair: the gentlelady from ohio is recognized for one minute. ms. sutton: thank you and i thank you, mr. doyle, for your leadership. this is a great amendment. it's a commonsense ame

steel and projects from north america. i have news for you. that is far from true, too. but mr.y has done here is the result is a bad thing in wireless will support this amendment is to try to point out what we need in this entire debate is truth in advertising. in all, it is a mass if they can develop an environmentally sinewave and i favor building a bus across his teeth and job the eyes on the 30 day fast track in the attempt to what my friend dr. kerry is trying to do. ultimately, this pipeline will be approved once it goes throughout the processes that it needs to go through to ensure people's safety and environmental concerns are night and i support that. through because construction jobs at people in organized labor. that's a good thing. for those reasons alone i thank you make sense. but let's not kid ourselves. that oil is going down to the gulf and will get refined and a lot of it is going to lead the country go other places. that is the way it works. there's nothing wrong or illegal with that, but that is reality. let's not make americans think we are energy independe

mr. fix-it if the economy is already getting fixed? joining me now, dana milbank, political columnist for "the washington post." and coming to us from cnbc, michael steele, msnbc analyst and former rnc chairman. thank you both for being here tonight. >> good to be with you, rev. >> let me start with you, dana. dana, i'll ask the question again. how can mitt romney run as mr. fix-it if the economy is already getting fixed? >> well, the problem, reverend al, is it's starting to look like a morning in america election at least from this vantage point. and the republican candidates find themselves waking up on the bathroom floor with a terrible headache because they were celebrating the prospect of running against a president presiding over a very weak economy. that seems with very little time to spare, seems to have turned the corner here. and if that -- if it keeps up with these numbers that we're seeing basically on a daily basis now, the entire playbook for the republicans has to be thrown out the window and they have to find a different way to run. >> now michael, before you respond, let's look at some fox news polling numbers. fox news now. if you loo

. >> michael steele is with us in washington and has a question. >> mr. have to fix your mike, one second. >> i was struck by a couple of things, the nostalgia of seeing the '92 campaign and the way that as dee dee myers put it in your film, that bill clinton viewed every opportunity as an opportunity to reclaim himself, to you know, come back, the comeback kid as he defined himself even after coming in second in new hampshire. but also, the anger and the sort of vicious nature of the opposition. you had an interview, a bit of an interview with lucy ann goldberg, who played such a big part in the unraveling of the monica lewinsky scandal and she talked about how so viscerally about how the wife was so horrible and the wife had no sense of humor. anyone who has known hillary clinton then and now knows that despite everything that they went through, that's not who hillary clinton is. and it was just this, i hate to revert to the great right-wing conspiracy, but there was really, a group out there who were not going to let him succeed and he of course played

mr. blumenauer: one of your points about the impact of that one piece of the bridge project, the $400 million element of steel, it wasn't just the steel itself. had we been developing that portion of the steel for the project in the united states, there would have been thousands of other jobs that would have been related to it to support that effort in terms of the manufacturing, the development, the people who provide the equipment to manufacture the steel and put it in place and the tools. it is a dramatic ripple effect. you referenced 150,000 miles of road in critical need of repair. what's under the surface is even in worse shape. we have in the united states every day six billion gallons of water that leaks from water mains that are old, in some cases, unsafe and unhealthy. that's the equivalent of 9 thousand olympic-sized swimming pools. lined end to end, it would go from washington, d.c., to pittsburgh, pennsylvania. mr. garamendi: that's a lot of swimming. mr. blumenauer: it's a lot of water wasted and it is a problem in terms of undermining roads. we have all seen these terrible pictures of sink hole

mr. speaker. when things had gotten so tough and we were having to ration rubber and ration steel and ration sugar and ration salt, when the country had come together to fight a common foe around the globe, this was our debt as a percentage of our economy. here we are today, mr. speaker. we are not rationing rubber. we are not rationing sugar. we are not taking those common steps of sacrifice because we think our economy is about to go over the cliff, but it is. and this red line, mr. speaker if we continue with this blue budget that the president has sent to us, that makes no tough choices about our future this red line is the debt that's coming. this is what the law of the land spends on behalf of your family and mine and every other american family, mr. speaker. and spends our nation into oblivion. the truth is it's never going to get as bad as this chart, the congressional budget office, which does the projections, their computer actually breaks down about half way through that red line and says there is no way the economy can continue to function under these circumstances. america will no lon

mr. obama. but above all, they want to hear an agenda and vision for a better future that can rally a majority to defeat him. >> boy, what a great editorial. michael steelesaid it better myself. and what the "wall street journal" editorial said this morning. this, romney is resilient. getting beaten up, not a bad thing because if you talk to republican people early on about the romney campaign, they all talked about the arrogance. >> yeah. >> and how they felt like it was their time and they were entitled and arrogant. that's been beaten out of them, hasn't it? >> it has. i think the base has humbled them mightily at this point. making it very clear that this is a process we want to be a part of. and yes, you may be the front-runner, but we get the final say. and so i think last night in many respects was very humbling because even though it was a closer vote than they wanted, he did win. and so he can take from last night the kind of momentum that a real front-runner will need going into that big super tuesday fight where he as you've already noted, joe, he's got santorum ready to prime the pump in ohio. and newt gingrich sitting there in the south read

mr. altmire, thank you for the work you've done in western pennsylvania. at one time, when i was growing up, it was the center of the american steel industry and manufacturing there and to the immediate west in indiana and on, i want to put up this chart because it demonstrates the challenge that we face an the opportunity that we have. this chart speaks of the 12 years, six million american manufacturing jobs lost, way back, let's go back about 20, 25 years ago, there were just under 20 million manufacturing jobs in america. over the years it was up and down with a slight decrease an then beginning around the year 2000, we began to see a precipitous decline, basically the outsourcing of american jobs this egreat manufacturing heart an heartbeat of america just began to slow down to a rhythm where now we are down to just over 11 million manufacturing jobs. . this right here is the challenge that this house faces. and when we start with what the what the president has suggested, we start with r&d and that's where the new ideas and products have been developed. and we have to couple that with manufacturing. i want to give two examples from my own district, on

steel in this project is coming from north america. well, i got news for you. that's far from true, too. so i think what mr. markey's done here, the end result, i think is a bad thing, and why i won't support his amendment is to try to point out that what we need in this entire debate is a little bit of truth in advertising. you know, it's enough to be for this pipeline if it can be built in an environmentally sound way and i favor building it once we cross those t's and dot those i's and i'm not for any 30-day fast track or the attempt at what my friend, mr. terry, is trying to do. but i think ultimately this pipeline will be approved. once it goes through. all the processes that it needs to go through to ensure that people's safety and environmental concerns are met. and i support that. and i think there's going to be some good construction jobs by people and organized labor. i think that's a good thing. for those reasons alone, i think it makes sense. but let's not kid ourselves. that oil is going down to the gulf. it's going to get refined in these tax-free zones and a lot of it is going to leave the co